Cloud Cuckoo Land (magazine)
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Воздушный замок | |
|---|---|
| subtitle | International journal on the theory of architecture |
| Shorthand | W | C | B |
| Magazine type | Online trade journal as special issues |
| ISSN | ISSN 1434-0984 |
| languages | German, English, Russian |
| Appears | Two themed issues per year (usually) |
| founding year | 1996 |
| founder | Eduard Führ |
| editor | Eduard Führ, Jörg H. Gleiter, Ute Poerschke |
| Managing Editor | Sebastian Feldhusen |
| Editorial locations | Berlin, Bielefeld, University Park |
| Wearer | momusIstiftung, foundation for the promotion of the theory of architecture |
| Partner institutions | Technical University of Berlin, Pennsylvania State University (University Park), momusIstudio (Bielefeld) |
| Type of publication | Open Access |
| Internet address | cloud-cuckoo.net |
Cloud Cuckoo Land | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Воздушный замок ( proper spelling , short form: W | C | B) is an online specialist journal on theoretical, scientific and methodological issues in architecture . The magazine is usually published twice a year as a themed issue with articles in German, English and Russian. It is ad-free and accessible free of charge ( Open Access ). The article of the journal are subject to a double-blind opinion (English double-blind review ). Individual issues also appear in print form in the series Theoretical Investigations on Architecture .
history
The magazine was founded and published in 1996 by Eduard Führ , who held the chair of architecture theory at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and is now Emeritus until 2010 . After Architronik, The Electronic Journal of Architecture (1992 to 1999), it was one of the first online specialist journals on theoretical issues in architecture. As a result, it assumed pioneering status in terms of both media and content. Hanno Rauterberg commented in 2003:
“Architects wanted to talk, draw, build and be spared from all deep thought. Anyone who dared to do theoretical construction sooner or later found themselves in the Cloud Cuckoo Land, on an Internet site of the same name that propagates thinking with daring patience and traces the being and should of architecture. Of course, there are reasons why these net philosophers, held together by Professor Eduard Führ from Cottbus, were almost the only callers in the theoretical desert for a long time [...]. "
To this day, the magazine is one of the few who deal theoretically with architecture and is also free of charge and free of advertising on the Internet. The journal is supplemented by an archive of theoretical writings on architecture from the past centuries. Until 2013 the journal was stored on servers of the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg. In 2013 the magazine was migrated to a private provider and the layout was revised. Jörg H. Gleiter ( Technical University Berlin ) and Ute Poerschke ( Pennsylvania State University ) are now also acting as editors . Sebastian Feldhusen has been the managing editor since then.
Self-image
The title of the magazine originally comes from Aristophane's comedy The Birds : The birds want to free themselves from their dependence on humans and the earth, as well as the gods and the sky. They found - in the space between - a city in the clouds: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Greek Νεφελοκοκκυγία ). As she puts it herself, the magazine wants to be “a cloud cuckoo country in the sense of Aristophanes, which wants to discuss architecture beyond traditional boundaries (languages, cultures, disciplines).” The magazine has a wide range of topics and one in the theory of architecture broad concept of architecture. The magazine puts it this way:
" Architecture is understood as an umbrella term, namely for structural, functional, perception-organizing, artistic, infrastructural and social planning, for drafts and realizations in all scales, i.e. the design of things, interior design, building architecture, landscape architecture and their practical and aesthetic appropriation. Appropriation means use, experience, knowledge and their systematization as well as theoretical and epistemological reflections, as well as conception, design, implementation in the context of the circumstances, effectiveness and success evaluations as well as architecture communication and architecture criticism. Theory of architecture is linguistically reflective, discursively mediating and / or artistically implemented, interdisciplinary anchored concrete analysis, the process of acquiring knowledge, interpreting and criticizing architecture in or outside scientific systems that reflects scientific theory . [...] The aim of the magazine is to promote theory and science in the field of architecture and to make tools available to third parties on the Internet. It consists of thematic booklets and the Open Collection Theory of Architecture (OSIThArch). It initiates research and promotes discussions, especially about epistemological and methodological questions in architecture on the Internet or at conferences. "
Editorial offices
- Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany (Head: Jörg Gleiter)
- Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany (Head: Eduard Führ)
- University Park, United States of America (Head: Ute Poerschke)
construction
A magazine consists of an editorial written by curators and individual articles by authors. The articles are assigned to thematic priorities. In addition, a “discussion forum” has been offered since 2013, in which, for example, brief theses on the topic can be published and criticism of the special issue or an article can be expressed. Posts for the discussion forum - like all other posts for the journal - are subjected to a double-blind review. This also gives young theorists, for example, the opportunity to submit shorter articles.
Procedure
Contributions are advertised via a call for papers ; A synopsis is used to provide information on projected issues . Contributions received are also subjected to a double-blind review. This gives the scientific and argumentative quality of the contributions priority over the reputation of the authors.
Specialty
A special feature of the magazine is that the issues are designed by changing curators in contact with the editorial offices. You can be a member of the editorial team, former authors or relevant researching external architects, experts or scientists. This enables external parties to contribute to the content of the magazine.
Special issues (selection)
- Issue 1 (1996): Architecture in the intermediate realm of art and everyday life (also published as a book by Verlag Waxmann : ISBN 978-3-89325-585-6 )
- Issue 3 (1997): Architecture - Language (also published as a book by Verlag Waxmann : ISBN 978-3-89325-652-5 )
- Issue 5 (1998): Building and Housing - An examination of Heidegger's essay "Building, Living, Thinking (1951) " (also published as a book by Verlag Waxmann : ISBN 3-89325-896-5 )
- Issue 6 (1999): Design - Creativity and Materialization
- Issue 13 (2002): Bringing Up A Critique of Architectural Criticism (also published as a book by Verlag Waxmann : ISBN 978-3-8309-1304-7 )
- Issue 14 (2003): The public space in times of shrinkage
- Issue 18/19 (2005): From Outer Space: Architectural Theory Outside the Discipline
- Issue 20/21 (2005): The future of architecture mediation
- Issue 23/24 (2007/2008): For interpreting architecture
- Issue 26 (2009): The concrete and the architecture
- Issue 30 (2012): Function - Purpose - Use in architecture and urban planning
- Issue 31 (2013): Synaesthesia. Body - space / architecture
- Issue 32 (2014): Social Media and Architecture
- Issue 33 (2014): Theory of Technology in Architecture and Urban Design
Web links
- Website of the magazine
- Sponsor of the magazine: momus | stiftung
- Partner institution: Department of Architectural Theory, Technical University of Berlin
- Partner institution: H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
- Partner institution: momus | studio
Individual evidence
- ↑ To be published by Verlag Waxmann (selection)
- ↑ Website of the former Architronik magazine , The Electronic Journal of Architecture ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hanno Rauterberg: A new building in the world. Four new anthologies on architectural theory. In: The time. Literature and Music, Vol. 58, No. 42, 2003, p. 84 ( zeit.de ).
- ^ Open collection on the theory of architecture (OSIThArch) on the journal's website.
- ↑ Excerpt from the self-image of the magazine on their website.
- ↑ See, for example, the discussion forum in issue 31 ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Call for papers and exposés are published in summary on the website.
